The Sims 4: How to Do the Asylum Challenge

Gameplay Rules

How to Do the Asylum Challenge in The Sims 4

These are the general gameplay rules for The Sims 4 version of the Asylum Challenge that will apply to all difficulties. More gameplay rules that change based on difficulty are listed on the next page.

• You must only control your own Sim. You cannot control the other Sims even if their needs are low. In other words, you don’t get to prevent them from dying if it comes to that.
• Turn on High Free Will so the other Sims will do things on their own.
• No cheats or mods that impact or boost a Sim’s needs or skills are allowed during the Asylum Challenge.
• You are not allowed to use your Sim’s inventory to keep certain items to yourself. You are allowed to check the other Sims’ inventories at 12 am to make sure they don’t have items in their inventory that should be left out in the asylum instead.
• You are not allowed to rearrange the furniture in the asylum to control the behavior of an uncontrollable Sim or to reserve certain items for yourself.
• If a Sim dies you must keep their grave on the lot.
• Your Sim is the only Sim that is allowed to “work hard” in their career. You can’t make the other Sims “work hard” in their careers.

Outdoor Retreat expansion pack:

• Outdoor Enthusiast Aspiration is allowed.
• You are only allowed to travel to Granite Fall if you need to complete goals for the Outdoor Enthusiast Aspiration.
• All of your fellow patients have to come with you and you have to choose the campground as your destination.

Get To Work expansion pack:

• You are allowed to have alien patients.
• No active careers are allowed.
• Your Sim is not allowed to own a retail business.
• If a fellow patient is abducted by aliens and comes back pregnant it is up to you if you want to keep the baby or send it back to its homeworld. If you keep the baby in the asylum, immediately age it up to an Adult using birthday cake over and over again. Keep in mind that your new alien Sim will also need to have the insane trait.